Pushing the boat out again ! How about I.A.R. 818 from Romania ? Doesn't fit with many clues ?? Keith

evansb's challenge
 

Bri
Would that be the Legrand-Simon LS50 Dauphine?
Mel

Mel, you are correct:ok: The improved version, the LS60, was the challenge cockpit a few months ago. You have control.
Bri
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...0_Dauphine.jpg

Next Challenge
 

Thanks Bri. Here is the next challenge.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...pitquiz325.jpg
Mel

I'll commence by guessing it is a Lewis & Vought VE-9. The two-tiered panel is unusual, as is the intrusion in the lower centre, which looks like a housing for a nose wheel. The sterno pot dead ahead looks like an early RN torpedo aiming device. All a bit puzzling. The well padded cockpit sides would indicate a racer, or is it an inflatable collar for the odd off-shore excursion ?

Mel's Challenge
 

Sorry Bri. Not a Lewis & Vought VE-9. India Four Two's last comment is applicable to this aircraft.
Mel

Is it from Ansaldo ?

Mel's Challenge
 

It certainly is Bri. :)
Mel

So it's an Ansaldo SVA, WW1 scout/recce machine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansaldo_SVA

Mel's Challenge
 

Agaricus bisporus. You are getting there for the extra point can you give me which one?
Mel

Hm! Caught me out, haven't you? Answers derived not from knowledge but web search.

It looks to me like a 2 seater, the singles seemed to have a high-backed fuselage, and that device ahead of the screen could well be a gun mount, so I'll say a -10 2 seat recce version. The apparently padded cockpit sides might be explained by this too.

Mel's Challenge
 

As you have rightly deduced it is a two seater and in fact it is the Ansaldo SVA.9.:ok:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...saldoSVA-9.jpg
In 1979 Aeroplane Monthly reported on the restoration of a SVA.9 by Herbert Fyfield and was part of the Fyfield Collection of Washington,Connecticut, USA. I am not sure if this collection still exists perhaps someone can confirm.
You have control
Mel

Free for all!

Here is the next cockpit:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r.../WCP080509.jpg

G159 Gulfstream 1 ?

How about the Grumman Gulfstream 1 (VC-4A) The twin turboprop ??? Keith.

windriver is correct:ok: By a nano second. The Grumman G159 Gulfstream I. You have control.

Sorry Norwich... just pipped you to the post. I spent many happy hours in the G1 so an easy one for me.....

Here goes...

Bristol Blenheim MK IV - possibly, perhaps, maybe......???

Not quite....